Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria, Xxi.--why the Head of the Male Goat Smells So Strong., sentence 45
So the goat went to the corpse and asked it to give back his mat or else to pay him for it, but he received no reply.
Who acts: goat, farmer · What happens: go, ask, give back, pay, receive · To what, where: corpse, mat, farmer, reply
This is a sentence of «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Xxi.--why the Head of the Male Goat Smells So Strong.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (goat, farmer), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 goat | det |
| 3 | goat | goat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 corpse | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 corpse | det |
| 7 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 asked | cc |
| 9 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 asked | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 give | mark |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 asked | xcomp |
| 13 | back | back | ADP | _ | 12 give | compound:prt |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 mat | nmod:poss |
| 15 | mat | mat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obj |
| 16 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 pay | cc |
| 17 | else | else | ADV | _ | 19 pay | advmod |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 pay | mark |
| 19 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 give | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 pay | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 it | case |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 pay | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 received | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 received | cc |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 received | nsubj |
| 26 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | conj |
| 27 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 28 reply | det |
| 28 | reply | reply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 received | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the goat | the corpse | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to corpse=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | the goat not said here | corpse | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | give back not said to happen | to-infinitive | the goat not said here | farmer's mat | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mat=Theme | ||||
| 4 | pay | to-infinitive | the goat not said here | farmer | for mat; else property | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Asset for it=Theme | |||
| 5 | receive | past | farmer | no reply | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reply=Theme |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Ikom folk stories from Southern Nigeria» by Elphinstone Dayrell, Project Gutenberg book 70959 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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